Whenever people say 'a boatload' of anything, they're usually referring to an imaginary, yet enormous, load of something. You can essentially have a boatload of anything and most people will assume whatever it is it's massive.

So when we say a boatload of drugs has been discovered on an actual boat that crashed on an Australian reef, we mean there was a lot.

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West Australian police have discovered a casual $1 billion worth of cocaine and ecstasy on this boat, which became stuck on an island off Geraldton.

Credit: WA Police

Community members alerted authorities about the 15m yacht that was in trouble but cops got way more than they bargained for when they saw what was in it.

According to the ABC, when a 51-year-old French national and a 34-year-old English man realised their boat was stuck, they chucked the incredible amount of drugs onto a smaller vessel and took it to nearby Burton Island.

Their ingenious plan was allegedly to bury the enormous stash and then come back later when the heat cooled off.

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But this was all foiled when police stumbled across them trying to cover the bags of drugs with seaweed. We're not drug trafficking experts here but you'd surely think that this plan was going to fail.

Stewart Perrie

Stewart Perrie is a Trending Journalist at LADbible. His first job was as a newsreader and journalist at the award winning Sydney radio station, Macquarie Radio. He was solely responsible for the content broadcast on multiple stations across Australia when the MH17, Germanwings and AirAsia disasters unfolded. Stewart has covered the conflict in Syria for LADbible, interviewing a doctor on the front line, and has contributed to the hugely successful UOKM8 campaign.